From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OgLyG-0000CB-Jx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:12:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71F46E06BE; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 18:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A11E06BE for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 18:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mosly (unknown [178.125.35.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E9D5C1B40B8; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 18:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:11:22 +0300 From: Sergei Trofimovich To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: sebasmagri@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time? Message-ID: <20100803211122.0aa20ffb@mosly> In-Reply-To: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87pqy02spd.fsf@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/fYt22.+WYMXU4IVX9PnGc+u"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: f4e8c343-58a9-42d5-bf93-5f38568e2442 X-Archives-Hash: 424edb458538fe6cbca5fc1de55caff6 --Sig_/fYt22.+WYMXU4IVX9PnGc+u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Sebasti=C3=A1n, > I've been thinking about switching from a rsync based tree to a git > based one cloning [0]. The main reasons because I would do that is in > order to save bandwidth (I've a slow GSM connection in my netbook and > I sync two other gentoo boxes from the first one) and maybe time. When I had awfully slow internet I used to use app-portage/emerge-delta-web= rsync. emerge-delta-webrsync recreates portage tarball from previous state and pat= ches. It usually takes about 300KB (one patch size) per day. --=20 Sergei --Sig_/fYt22.+WYMXU4IVX9PnGc+u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxYW84ACgkQcaHudmEf86o07ACggezSNaa2dTe1KQIcWCWRIFgF naoAnRCxQhjrPzimvaRP2hIJFfG86b/B =6TNr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/fYt22.+WYMXU4IVX9PnGc+u--